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stopbush

(24,396 posts)
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 04:17 PM Apr 2020

Oops. tRump was contacted by a bleach cure-all advocate before pushing yesterday's miracle cure

The liar is caught again:

The leader of the most prominent group in the US peddling potentially lethal industrial bleach as a “miracle cure” for coronavirus wrote to Donald Trump at the White House this week.

In his letter, Mark Grenon told Trump that chlorine dioxide – a powerful bleach used in industrial processes such as textile manufacturing that can have fatal side-effects when drunk – is “a wonderful detox that can kill 99% of the pathogens in the body”. He added that it “can rid the body of Covid-19”.

A few days after Grenon dispatched his letter, Trump went on national TV at his daily coronavirus briefing at the White House on Thursday and promoted the idea that disinfectant could be used as a treatment for the virus. To the astonishment of medical experts, the US president said that disinfectant “knocks it out in a minute. One minute!”

In his weekly televised radio show, posted online on Sunday, Grenon read out the letter he wrote to Trump. He said it began: “Dear Mr President, I am praying you read this letter and intervene.

Guenon said that 30 of his supporters have also written in the past few days to Trump at the White House urging him to take action to protect Genesis II in its bleach-peddling activities which they claim can cure coronavirus.

On Friday, hours after Trump talked about disinfectant on live TV, Grenon went further in a post on his Facebook page. He claimed that MMS had actually been sent to the White House. He wrote: “Trump has got the MMS and all the info!!! Things are happening folks! Lord help others to see the Truth!”

Paradoxically, Trump’s outburst about the possible value of an “injection” of disinfectant into the lungs of Covid-19 sufferers came just days after a leading agency within the president’s own administration took action to shut down the peddling of bleach as a coronavirus cure around the US.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-leader-group-peddling-bleach-cure-lobbied-trump-coronavirus

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Oops. tRump was contacted by a bleach cure-all advocate before pushing yesterday's miracle cure (Original Post) stopbush Apr 2020 OP
tRump is such a sucker he believed the Archbishop Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2020 #1
This Is Just Incredible, Sir The Magistrate Apr 2020 #2
Ah, just asking who put that drivel in head.. But Of course.. Cha Apr 2020 #3
What percentage was he offering? central scrutinizer Apr 2020 #4
Confirms his tendency to blurt whatever was recently said to him. nolabear Apr 2020 #5
jeeze...not only is he a con, he's also a sucker stillcool Apr 2020 #6

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,032 posts)
1. tRump is such a sucker he believed the Archbishop
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 04:27 PM
Apr 2020

Grenon styles himself as “archbishop” of Genesis II – a Florida-based outfit that claims to be a church but which in fact is the largest producer and distributor of chlorine dioxide bleach as a “miracle cure” in the US. He brands the chemical as MMS, “miracle mineral solution”, and claims fraudulently that it can cure 99% of all illnesses including cancer, malaria, HIV/Aids as well as autism.

Since the start of the pandemic, Genesis II has been marketing MMS as a cure to coronavirus. It advises users, including children, to mix three to six drops of bleach in water and drink it.

In his weekly televised radio show, posted online on Sunday, Grenon read out the letter he wrote to Trump. He said it began: “Dear Mr President, I am praying you read this letter and intervene”.


The Magistrate

(95,251 posts)
2. This Is Just Incredible, Sir
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 04:38 PM
Apr 2020

There is not the slightest reason to disbelieve this dangerously unbalanced and credulous thug got this 'put disinfectants into your body' idea from this minor league loon. Under that hairspray crown is a mind so empty of knowledge and judgement that this sort of nonesense would not just appeal to him but convince him it was sound advice.


"Defeat of a dangerous enemy is something to be for."

nolabear

(41,990 posts)
5. Confirms his tendency to blurt whatever was recently said to him.
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 04:46 PM
Apr 2020

It’s amazing. He really is Drunk Uncle.

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